MrBrown

https://www.wowhead.com/news/netease-response-to-blizzard-entertainment-local-orc-statue-torn-down-331041

Don't be like me and not notice the "in" word. So it's not laying off whole of Xbox and Bethesda.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-faces-eu-antitrust-warning-over-activision-deal-sources-2023-01-16/ Dunno what this means in practice.

What does "system agnostic" even mean?

You can google for good seeds, if you want.

Hidden Path should make Defense Grid 3.

Not monetized enough?

Finished Vampire Survivors base game. It was more fun early on when it was more of a stat dependent game, later it just got too wacky and gimmicky, and there were clearly better weapons and characters. But it was ok overall.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/video-gamers-sue-microsoft-us-court-stop-activision-takeover-2022-12-20/

No.

It's always online because it's an MMO. You might as well criticize WoW for being always online. It's the main reasons I'm probably not playing it, but it's not like they set out to make a single player game in the first place.

I hope they don't, MS seems like it'll treat Blizzard's IPs better than Blizzard currently does.

Valheim Mistland update just went live. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/892970/view/3647382900915760340

Bioware has a weird concept of "in-game cinematic" https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=988636142000680

It's really not that stripped down. They're missing some specializations from some classes, mainly because those are not in the open license format, but other than that it's almost all there. Some of the specializations they added are pretty boring, but I like their character backgrounds.

Started playing Valheim with friends. Horribly addicting, lots of 6-7 hour days. I'm sure the content will run out at some point, but so far very good. Also, this Smelter goes up to 11:

I meant the overall game mechanical focus on superhero-esque powers, in both your team and the enemies. Xcom1 felt more like you were controlling a group of soldiers. Chimera Squad and the Xcom2 DLCs felt more like fights from superhero movies.

With how they did Xcom2 DLCs and Chimera Squad, I suspect there won't be much difference between Xcom3 and the marvel game.

With the new restrictions China put for games recently, this might be the future... https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/blizzard-entertainment-and-netease-suspending-game-services

Trying to play The Ascent, co-op. Crashes all the time.

If they're going to change something, it's probably the card collecting of women you've slept with. That's not very 2020's.

https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/jfwd8PsUw8r3pKrO1wOc5/fallout25-conclusion-interviews-events-perks I'm reminded of this: EDIT: Changed the link for clarity.